Racheal's review
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
not through it yet? perhaps not meant for rushdie. many aren't. i had no choice but to navigate it with breakneck desperation.
I like the 'flag abuse' button and I fear I may have to use it with you at some point. I am actually, finally, getting into this book. I could never get past the first couple of chapters, and now I'm like 50 pages in and it's getting quite good. Do not underestimate me as 'not meant for rushdie' just yet.
didn't exactly mean as an insult. some folks just think he's garbage.
your observation of SR's tendency to humanize/simplify the greater thing is dangerously nietzschesque. there absolutely must be something greater than ourselves in/out of the world. we sense it. constantly.
Not sure if I'm meant to respond to this, but...I wasn't really questioning the existence of something greater than ourselves, I was simply commenting on SR's ability to humanize figures like Mohammed who are glorified as normal people who became godly through their interactions with/pursuit of godly creations/organized religion. Not sure if I'm making sense yet...Perhaps this warrants a proper conversation, perhaps not. I'll leave it up to you.
Racheal's review
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Racheal's review
rating:
I find it fitting that I would finish this book the same week Sir Salman got knighted and sparked renewed protests across the Muslim world...Truth be told, it's easy to see why they're so afraid of him - he writes so deftly about God(s) and myths and religion as to make one wonder where the limits of his imagination lie, and he does it all so convincingly that he makes human that which is meant to be revered as something greater than our collections of imperfection. This was not the easiest book to get through, and I am not usually one to abandon logic and embrace fantasy, but in this case, I think it would be cheating yourself not to do both. Pretty amazing.
not through it yet? perhaps not meant for rushdie. many aren't. i had no choice but to navigate it with breakneck desperation.
I like the 'flag abuse' button and I fear I may have to use it with you at some point. I am actually, finally, getting into this book. I could never get past the first couple of chapters, and now I'm like 50 pages in and it's getting quite good. Do not underestimate me as 'not meant for rushdie' just yet.
didn't exactly mean as an insult. some folks just think he's garbage.
your observation of SR's tendency to humanize/simplify the greater thing is dangerously nietzschesque. there absolutely must be something greater than ourselves in/out of the world. we sense it. constantly.
Not sure if I'm meant to respond to this, but...I wasn't really questioning the existence of something greater than ourselves, I was simply commenting on SR's ability to humanize figures like Mohammed who are glorified as normal people who became godly through their interactions with/pursuit of godly creations/organized religion. Not sure if I'm making sense yet...Perhaps this warrants a proper conversation, perhaps not. I'll leave it up to you.
